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Award-winning author Bob Leonard has collected odd and curious money for more than 50 years. He has written 17 studies on specific unusual monies, earning literary awards from the American Numismatic Association and the Numismatic Literary Guild. In this revised and updated 2nd Edition to the popular Curious Currency, 1st Edition, Leonard engagingly explores the lessons many different odd and curious monies have for our economy today.
What is money? We use it every day without giving it a thought. But money isn't limited to coins and paper. It includes a wide range of so-called primitive or traditional currency, surrogates for cash, and even things that are quite invisible. Join award-winning author Robert Leonard as he trots the globe exploring the development of money from the Stone Age to the Internet Age. You'll find a treasure trove inside this colorful, entertaining and authoritative book: gold, silver, and blocks of salt ... elephant tails, Yap stones, and chocolate bars ... iron nails, whale teeth, human skulls, and hundreds of other pieces of odd and curious money. Each has a fascinating story. Each holds a lesson for anyone who earns, spends, or collects money today. Book jacket.
Excerpt from Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gold and Silver Coins of the World: Illustrating the Modern, Ancient, Current and Curious, From A. D. 1885 Back to B. C. 700 In the interests of the science to which I have been so long de voted, to justify the attering Opinion expressed by those who de sired this work from my hands, to aid, so far as in my power, in systemizing money and commercial transactions, and for my own reputation, I have expended upon the encyclopedia an amount of hard, conscientious labor for which money cannot recompense me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
A comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds.